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Free Download Ofer Feldman, "Communicating Political Humor in the Media: How Culture Influences Satire and Irony "
English | ISBN: 9819707250 | 2024 | 321 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This anthology of studies is a follow-up to Political Humor Worldwide: The Cultural Context of Political Comedy, Satire, and Parody. It further examines political humor as a distinct sub-discipline of political communication, influenced and shaped by a country’s culture. The book’s contributors, experts drawn from the academic fields of political science, communication, linguistics, sociology, culture studies, political psychology, and others, offer an assortment of studies from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on political humor in the media, the authors offer a panorama of political humor―including political satire, parody, and cartooning―in Spain, Poland, Montenegro, Turkey, Japan, Australia, Iran, Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia, and Indonesia, among others. They detail political humor’s multifaceted and versatile nature, suggesting that national culture and political humor expressed in the news media are intertwined; thus, understanding political humor requires looking at the cultural landscape of a given country or society. The book helps readers to better understand the factors that shape political humor across the globe in a variety of political and media systems.

Free Download Stina Bengtsson, "Classics in Media Theory"
English | ISBN: 1032557958 | 2024 | 408 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This comprehensive collection introduces and contextualizes media studies’ most influential texts and thinkers, from early 20th century mass communication to the first stages of digital culture in the 21st century.

Free Download Dustin Tahmahkera, "Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands "
English | ISBN: 0803286880 | 2022 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops with the so-called fall of the Comanche empire in 1875, when Quanah Parker led Comanches onto the reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. In Cinematic Comanches, the first tribal-specific history of Comanches in film and media, Parker descendant Dustin Tahmahkera examines how Comanches represent themselves and are represented by others in recent media. Telling a story of Comanche family and extended kin and their relations to film, Tahmahkera reframes a distorted and defeated history of Comanches into a vibrant story of cinematic traditions, agency, and cultural continuity.

Free Download Censored 2013: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012 By Mickey Huff, Khalil Bendib, Project Censored
2012 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1609804228 | EPUB | 4 MB
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group–a university-wide projectat Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now underthe leadership of Mickey Huff–has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book,Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missingbecause of media bias and self-censorship. Seven Stories Press has been publishing this yearbook since 1994, featuring the top stories listeddemocratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each ofthe top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories. Beyond the Top-25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics: The Censored Newsand Media Analysis section provides annual updates on Junk Food News and News Abuse, Censored DejaVu, signs of hope in the alternative and news media, and the state of media bias and alternative coveragearound the world. In the Truth Emergency section, scholars and journalists take a critical look at the US/NATOmilitary-industrial-media empire. And in the Project Censored International section, the meaning of mediademocracy worldwide is explored in close association with Project Censored affiliates in universities and atmedia organizations all over the world. A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest lifesigns of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need–despite what Big Media tells us.

Free Download Censored 2012: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011 By Mickey Huff, Project Censored
2011 | 496 Pages | ISBN: 1609803477 | EPUB | 5 MB
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group-a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff-has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. Seven Stories Press has been publishing this yearbook since 1994, featuring the top stories listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories. Beyond the Top-25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics: The Censored News and Media Analysis section provides annual updates on Junk Food News and News Abuse, Censored Déjà Vu, signs of hope in the alternative and news media, and the state of media bias and alternative coverage around the world. In the Truth Emergency section, scholars and journalists take a critical look at the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire. And in the Project Censored International section, the meaning of media democracy worldwide is explored in close association with Project Censored affiliates in universities and at media organizations all over the world. A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life signs of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need-despite what Big Media tells us.

Free Download Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World By Joseph Turow
1997 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0226817490 | PDF | 17 MB
Combining shrewd analysis of contemporary practices with a historical perspective, Breaking Up America traces the momentous shift that began in the mid-1970s when advertisers rejected mass marketing in favor of more aggressive target marketing. Turow shows how advertisers exploit differences between consumers based on income, age, gender, race, marital status, ethnicity, and lifesyles."An important book for anyone wanting insight into the advertising and media worlds of today. In plain English, Joe Turow explains not only why our television set is on, but what we are watching. The frightening part is that we are being watched as we do it."-Larry King"Provocative, sweeping and well made . . . Turow draws an efficient portrait of a marketing complex determined to replace the ‘society-making media’ that had dominated for most of this century with ‘segment-making media’ that could zero in on the demographic and psychodemographic corners of our 260-million-person consumer marketplace."-Randall Rothenberg, Atlantic Monthly

Free Download Johan Lindell, "Bourdieusian Media Studies "
English | ISBN: 1032421177 | 2024 | 130 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Bourdieusian Media Studies illustrates the merits of Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural sociological approach in the field of media studies, explicating exactly what a "Bourdieusian" analysis of media would entail, and what new understandings of the digital media landscape would emerge from such an analysis.

Free Download Active Media Technology: 9th International Conference, AMT 2013, Maebashi, Japan, October 29-31, 2013, Proceedings By Andrzej Jankowski, Andrzej Skowron, Roman Swiniarski (auth.), Tetsuya Yoshida, Gang Kou, Andrzej Skowron, Jiannong Cao, Hakim Hacid, Ning Zhong (eds.)
2013 | 434 Pages | ISBN: 3319027492 | PDF | 14 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2013, held in Maebashi, Japan, in October 2013. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 2 short papers, 16 workshop papers, and 12 special session papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on active computer systems, interactive systems, and application of AMT based systems; active media machine learning and data mining techniques; AMT for semantic web, social networks, and cognitive foundations. Additionally, the main topic of the workshop papers is: intelligence for strategic foresight; and for the special session papers: technologies and theories of narrative; evolutionary computation and its application; and intelligent media search techniques.

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032826576 | 133 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
Through a variety of academic and professional sources and by sharing the results of their own research, the authors present research methodologies, including netnography, visual, sentiment and argumentation analysis, for developing rigorous studies to gain social media insights that can be useful for decision-making and value creation. The book also discusses future trends regarding social media management in the fashion domain via interviews with senior fashion experts.

Free Download Redefining Media in the Digital Age: New Global Competitive Advantages
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031667859 | 143 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
The global rise of streaming and social media platforms, and the influence of tech giants in increasingly more sectors of the economy including the media industry, have disrupted the status quo of the global media competitive landscape. This volume offers an insightful analysis of the profound changes in the competitive advantages in the media industry ushered in by digital convergence, and their ramifications.